For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9
"There is no demarcation line between science and non-science, or between science and pseudoscience, which would win assent from a majority of philosophers.
Nor is there one which should win acceptance from philosophers or anyone else. What makes a belief well founded (or heuristically fertile)? And what makes a belief scientific?
[Our focus] should be squarely on the empirical and conceptual credentials for claims about the world. The 'scientific' status of those claims is altogether irrelevant."
Larry Laudan, philosopher of science
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9
"There is no demarcation line between science and non-science, or between science and pseudoscience, which would win assent from a majority of philosophers.
Nor is there one which should win acceptance from philosophers or anyone else. What makes a belief well founded (or heuristically fertile)? And what makes a belief scientific?
[Our focus] should be squarely on the empirical and conceptual credentials for claims about the world. The 'scientific' status of those claims is altogether irrelevant."
Larry Laudan, philosopher of science